Boherbue Comprehensive School is a secondary school in

Boherbue Boherbue (post office spelling) or Boherboy (Ordnance Survey spelling) () is a village in North West County Cork, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The village is in the Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Kilmeen in the Barony of Duhallow, a ...

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History

This school was opened in 1973 as a co-educational, non-selective post-primary school. The term 'comprehensive' was current at that time and the curriculum of the school combined what were formally regarded as the 'secondary' subjects with the 'technical' subjects. This was seen as giving a broad range of subjects under which pupils with very varying degrees of aptitude, ability and skills could prosper.

Sport

Gaelic football is the most popular sport within the school and it competes in the

All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship The All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship was a Gaelic Athletic Association football and hurling competition. There are two levels of competition. Individual schools compete for county, provincial and All-Ireland competitions. County teams s ...

. In 1992 the school were runners-up in the All-Ireland Senior Vocational School Championship and in 1998 it won the All-Ireland Junior Vocational School Championship. In 2001, the school won the All Ireland Ladies Senior Football Vocational Championship. Sports such as basketball and hurling are also played at the school.

Past pupils

Tony Buckley Tony Buckley (born 8 October 1980) is a former Irish rugby union player who played Prop. He was one of the heaviest men playing professional rugby, weighing in at 21 st 10 lbs or 138 kilograms (305 lbs). He wore size 16 boots which ha ...

, former

Munster Rugby Munster Rugby ( ga, Rugbaí Mumhan) is one of the four professional provincial rugby teams from the island of Ireland. They compete in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup. The team represents the IRFU's Munster B ...

, Sale Sharks and Irish Rugby International * Michael Moynihan, Fianna Fáil politician and TD for Cork North-West *

Donncha O'Connor Donncha O'Connor (born 25 April 1981) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who currently plays as a full-forward for the Cork senior team. He joined the team during the 2006 championship and immediately became a regular member of the starting fiftee ...

, Cork senior inter-county GAA player

External links

Homepage of Boherbue Comprehensive School
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